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Sensible icons for Plasma Activities (action icon)
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Current icon to show Activities panel is made by 3 dots.
The new one is intended to be a stack of screen with
option 1: nothing
option 2: 3 dots from current icon
option 3: a line like in the "show desktop" one
option 4: a "done" symbol
option 5: variation of 1

alex-l created Sensible icons for Plasma Activities (action icon).Jan 27 2017, 6:05 PM
alex-l added an image: Icons for Plasma Activities.
alex-l added a project: Breeze.
alex-l added a subscriber: andreask.
alex-l added a subscriber: ivan.Jan 27 2017, 6:11 PM
andreaska added a subscriber: andreaska.Jan 27 2017, 6:23 PM

I think the winsows 10 desktop switcher icon is more self explanation but yes the tree dot's could get an improvement.

https://www.deskmodder.de/wiki/images/6/6a/Virtuelle-desktops-windows-10.jpg

alex-l added an image: Icons for Plasma Activities.EditedJan 27 2017, 6:33 PM

I think the winsows 10 desktop switcher icon is more self explanation but yes the tree dot's could get an improvement.

Added (6 & 7) but it's hard to make the same of Windows in 16x16 pixels.

Edit: also notice that Plasma panel show Activities vertically.

andreaska added a comment.Jan 27 2017, 6:36 PM

by default the panel use 22px icon size as fare as I know

alex-l added an image: Icons for Plasma Activities.Jan 27 2017, 6:49 PM

Added two options (8 & 9). At the moment I think the #8 is better.

by default the panel use 22px icon size as fare as I know

Yes but we have to support 16x16 too, so I start from it because it's the harder one. The 22x22 will be the same but bigger.

andreaska added a comment.Jan 27 2017, 7:07 PM

would it be possible to use different circles (sizes) than it would be more plasma like maybe.

andreaska added a comment.Jan 27 2017, 9:34 PM

circle didn't work at my tests. maybe Ivan has a good idea.

alex-l added a comment.Jan 30 2017, 10:47 AM

I'm currently using the #8 and I think it works well.

alex-l added a comment.Feb 21 2017, 10:52 AM

@andreaska I'd go for #8, what do you think?

andreaska added a comment.Feb 21 2017, 10:53 AM

#8 is goog @ivan its your app, your choise

alex-l added a comment.Mar 20 2017, 2:04 PM

@ivan said me he like the #8, can I push it @andreaska?

ivan added a comment.Mar 27 2017, 9:37 PM

I somehow missed this one.

I like #7 and #8. The reason for it - it looks like multiple elements where the middle one has the focus.

ivan added a comment.Mar 27 2017, 9:39 PM

+1 for pushing #8 - we'll see the reactions.

ivan added a comment.Apr 13 2017, 1:09 PM

I've just seen that the same icon is used in win 10 for something else (no idea what, but I'm guessing virtual desktops).

In order not to confuse anyone, -1 :/

aaronhoneycutt added a subscriber: aaronhoneycutt.Apr 21 2017, 3:37 AM

The issue with comparing them to Win 10 is that Windows just has Virtual Desktops but Activities takes that to the the next level and the user should know that. Virtual Desktops are just copies of the current Desktop but for different open apps but Activities can be different layouts for each Desktop.

alex-l added a comment.Apr 28 2017, 6:43 PM

I'm not sure of what to do. The current icon with 3 dots doesn't give any indication of what is supposed to do.
The risk a user confuse VDs with Activities exists but he should be able to understand the difference trying it.
I'm using the new icon and I like it but this is blocking me from pushing it to master.